There are pencils that turn into
plants when you’re done using them.
The ‘Sprout Pencil’ is the first sustainable pencil in the world that can be planted after use.
“We have chosen the seeds for our pencils with great care, and they germinate quickly: i.e. within 1-3 weeks, depending on the seed variety. Most plants can be grown both indoors and outdoors.”
It’s made of natural materials: the body is cedar wood, and the “lead” is a mixture of clay and graphite.
Sprout pencils are available in 22 varieties, including sunflower, mint, lavender, sage, forget-me-not, cherry tomato, sweet pea, cilantro, and wild strawberry.
What to do
“When the Sprout Pencil has become too short to write with, it is ready to be planted. Follow the simple instructions below and see your Sprout pencil sprout.”
They are also available in the colored pencil variety, which makes me oh-so-happy!
Bard: Some cultures believe that the Creator sang the universe into existence, which is both correct and completely literal. Using scraps of divine melodies stolen from those few beings old enough to have heard them first-hand, a bard beguiles and bamboozles the very fabric of Creation into carrying out her wishes – in essence, successfully impersonating God. (This is why bardic spells depend on Charisma – when running a con job, projecting confidence is more important than getting the fine details right!) Demonstrating bardic magic in the presence of angels and other celestial beings is not recommended.
Cleric: Contrary to popular belief, clerical magic does not flow from a divine patron, nor from the cleric’s own belief in her principles; there are clerics dedicated to philosophies with no identifiable deity, and even a few clerics who believe in nothing at all. Rather, clerics are able to perform miracles because other people believe they can. The humble village priest’s power is limited by her small audience, while the truly mighty cultivate reputations known by millions. Many of the most powerful clerics are hereditary monarchs, trading on the fact that “everyone knows” the hands of a King are the hands of a healer. Confusingly, the gods do exist, but have nothing to do with the magic of their self-appointed representatives.
Wizard: “Spells” are living – albeit intangible – creatures that the wizard induces to inhabit her brain. They produce magical effects on demand as payment for the wizard’s cranial hospitality. High-level wizards learn to cultivate more spacious and luxurious mental accommodations, allowing them to house both larger numbers of spell-creatures and more demanding ones. While most low level spell-creatures are essentially interchangeable, high level spells (particularly those of 6th level or greater) may be named individuals with distinct personalities and opinions; a wizard who repeatedly prepares a particular spell may end up with the same entity over and over again.
Look at this lad. Image: THX, Ltd.The Deep Note, the distinctive synthesized crescendo that is THX’s audio trademark, is one of the most iconic sounds in all of film. For the effects firm’s 35th anniversary, they’ve now shared the sheet music behind the sound.
thanks i hate it
how dare you i love it
I can hear this image and I’m crapping myself as is standard
Can you imagine a choir singing this and how chilling that would sound
The whoosh is in D Major!
It got better: in a capella (please make this guy famous, his talent is unmatched)
4d printing is not a thing we cannot access dimensions higher than the third
The 4th dimension is time. Here, an object is printed in 3 dimensions but is constructed so that the stresses and strains in the material that occur when interacting with some environment it is in (such as water), will cause it to move in a predicted way. So it is 4D printed. This isn’t the only research group studying this. It is what it has been called for a few years now.
The Kingii is an emergency life preserver that you can strap right to your wrist that inflates in seconds and brings you straight to the surface of the water.
Despite the fact that I have never actually played D&D and have no specific, concrete plans to do so, I have been playing around for a while now with the idea of a homebrewed character class: Chef.
The Chef is inspired
partly
by the Heroes’ Feast (which I was, of course, made aware of by watching Critical Role) and partly by the fact that the Bard is a thing. Much as the Bard makes magic through music, the Chef’s food serves as potions. One friend summed it up as “like an alchemist, but more delicious.”
Cookies or brownies would probably grant Inspiration and/or Diplomacy bonuses (not even magical; this is literally how I make friends IRL). Caffeinated beverages would grant either a movement bonus or resistance to sleep, a banana-oatmeal smoothie would grant resistance to acid, etc.
Interestingly, this results in the whole “preparing spells for the day” thing making rather more sense than it does for the other magical classes, since the food must literally be prepared and (depending on the food) it can’t keep for all that long.
In combat, of course, the Chef would be skilled with knives (although, alternatively, they could also swing a mean skillet). At higher levels, they might also gain some elemental (especially thermal) magics. All combat skills would have names like Julienne or Flambée. (A spell to steal the breath from an enemy called Sous-Vide would be fun.) The Chef’s Favored Enemy would be the Rust Monster: ”I just got that pan properly seasoned!”
That, of course, brings us to the jokes:
It has been suggested that there should be a chef based on Guy Fieri, likely either a dwarf or a half-orc.
You cannot tell me Emeril is not an elvish name. Emeril Legolasse.
Chefs of a religious bent would most likely be followers of Alton, god of good eats.
A halfling Chef (obviously a good combination) whose Mysterious Backstory turns out to be that she is secretly a noblewoman who ran away from home because of Reasons. A perfectly solid basis for a character with lots of dramatic potential, but once it’s revealed, it becomes a game of seeing how long it takes your tablemates to catch on that you’re playing the Barefoot Contessa.
I wanna see the Grand Tourney of Kitchen Stadium for the amusement of Lord Kaga.
YES GOOD PERFECT
this is just. so great in so many ways, but also:
the best possible use of the term “homebrewed.”
*cackle* That was not even intentional!
I feel like the Chef class ought to have healing capabilities, along with all of the above. I mean, even in real life chicken soup is basically a healing potion, right?
gosh, so many ways that could go (I guess if Duckburg/Callisota was a KH ‘world’ then he would be one of several sidequests so nothing too long)- but I think the most compelling use of him would be his morally grey stance and the whole ‘equal balance of light and dark in hearts’ theme of the game.
Organisation XIII takes an interest in Gladstone as he’s basically a perfect split of light and dark, and tries to acquire him as a research subject and/or ally. As a scientific specimen both his neutrality and bizarre luck would be desirable- and especially interest Luxord, so he might be the key enemy or final boss for this sidequest. It may be Sora and the gang’s job to persuade Gladstone not to go with him (he’d probably find the prospect interesting, and let’s face it there’s a lot of material Luxord could use to manipulate him), and to do so they have to win against Gladstone in some kind of race or competition; his argument being that his luck knows best. It’s usually impossible to defeat him, but if it is best for him not to go, his luck won’t allow him to win. Once the player wins it all becomes obvious that he knew the Organization just wanted to use him like so many other people, that Gladstone wouldn’t betray his family and really just wanted Donald to prove that he cared enough to try and win him over.
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